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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:41:37 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
Cc:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: color, again, in grotty
Message-ID:  <3DB43C51.5ABE4F79@mindspring.com>
References:  <200210210815.g9L8Fx88081707@orthanc.ab.ca>

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Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> Haven't we learned a lesson from HTML? The unreadable colour
> combinations are bad enough there. The *LAST* thing I need is man pages
> with unreadable colour markup. What possible purpose can colour output
> from nroff serve, other than to satisfy someones craving for more
> blinkenlitz? We're knocking on the door of the twilight zone here,
> folks.

Now *there's* an idea: output to html, because you are guaranteed
that the rendering will Do The Right Thing(tm) for color.

-- Terry

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